ABBA will reunite at Waterloo’s Southbank Centre for an ‘immersive experience’ which will allow fans to imagine they live in the world of the Swedish pop band.

The 70s hit makers will bring bring together previously-unseen objects from the ABBA Museum based in Stockholm as well as the group’s private archives for the first time in the UK, for an exhibition called Super Troopers.

However it is thought that only 17 people will be able to enter at any one time; the select group will be guided through individual rooms all of which represent significant moments from ABBA’s career, including a replica of the Brighton Grand Hotel room, where ABBA stayed during the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, the Polar recording studio in Stockholm where they recorded their masterpieces, as well as handwritten notes and images, personal photographs, music and instruments, costumes, and their Eurovision medals.

File photo dated 7/4/1974 of the pop group ABBA (Picture: PA)

The exhibition will run as part of Nordic Matters, a year-long celebration of art and culture, music and dance, theatre and visual arts from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland,

Björn Ulvaeus said: ‘Since our songs, which were written in the 70s, are still being played today it’s particularly interesting that the Southbank Centre exhibition is placing them in the temporal context in which they were created’.

‘We recorded Mamma Mia in 1975. What happened that year in the UK and in the world? One thing is for certain – it seems unbelievably long ago!’

ABBA’s Frida Lyngstad said: ‘We are so excited that the exhibition is taking place at the Southbank Centre, which is just a few short steps away from Waterloo.’

The band’s 1974 hit song Waterloo was the winning entry for Sweden in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and began their path to worldwide fame; it is based on Napoleon’s surrender at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 but is primarily about a woman who surrenders to a man and promises to love him forever.

Jude Kelly, Southbank Centre Artistic Director, said: ‘ABBA’s music, image and personal stories have the remarkable ability to transcend time, place and generations, and still continue to reach millions of people worldwide.

‘We’re very pleased to take this opportunity to shed new light on these cultural icons, and explore why they remain so enduring in their appeal across the globe.’